STUART MACBRIDE
The Scottish crime writer shares his fi ve favourite reads with Judith Spelman
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Stuart MacBride is a Scottish writer who is known for his crime thrillers set in Aberdeen that feature Detective Sergeant Logan McRae. He didn’t start out to be a writer and attempted a variety of jobs including working as a graphic designer, a web designer, an actor, an undertaker and even a project manager for a very large IT company. At one stage in his life he began to study architecture at Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh but soon found it was not what he wanted as a career and so went off to work offshore. His book, Cold Granite, was snapped up by HarperCollins and since 2005 he has written at least a book a year, winning three awards – for the best first novel, the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the ITV Crime Thriller Award – as well as being nominated for many more. When he is researching, he works closely with local police and forensic specialists. His latest book is called Now We Are Dead. It has strong suggestions of AA Milne’s work, the specialist subject Stuart chose when he won Celebrity Mastermind in 2017.